Rich Energy drop Haas. No...Really. Seriously...
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bobbo89 said:
Steamer said:
I'm just glad Williams had the sense / foresight not to get involved, not that Haas seem bothered.
Williams obviously had reason not to take them on and they needed the money. Haas didn't need the money but somehow RE became their main sponsor....
thegreenhell said:
bobbo89 said:
Steamer said:
I'm just glad Williams had the sense / foresight not to get involved, not that Haas seem bothered.
Williams obviously had reason not to take them on and they needed the money. Haas didn't need the money but somehow RE became their main sponsor....
RichE "Ok, Claire lets do the deal!"
CWil "Great, William. We'll just do the due diligence on the deal and we'll........William!........Where are you going?..........WILLIAM"
RichE (taps furiously on mobile phone) "Hi is that Gene Haas?......I've got the opportunity of a lifetime I'd like to talk to you about"
CWil "Great, William. We'll just do the due diligence on the deal and we'll........William!........Where are you going?..........WILLIAM"
RichE (taps furiously on mobile phone) "Hi is that Gene Haas?......I've got the opportunity of a lifetime I'd like to talk to you about"
k were negotiated months back. Who do you think will get Storey's part?
FourWheelDrift said:
It needs someone with a long beard and who's prone to natural drunken ranting. So it's really down to Mel Gibson or Russell Crowe.
Why is it that all the crazies tend to look a bit like Jesus? Albeit in Storey's case it's a budget Jesus - the Jesus that Lidl would flog to you.
Vaud said:
Given (...) the banks are heavily involved... I highly doubt any form of money laundering.
Sorry but this made me chuckle, hence I thought I'd give you a link to one of the most recent storeys.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-moneylaundering...
https://beyondtheflag.com/2019/07/14/formula-1-ric...
So from reading that it looks to me as though the rouge tweet was an attempt to fool Haas into removing RE branding from the car believing they've just been terminated, then as a consequence of removing branding RE would then sue Haas for breach of contract and walk away with money to pay off Whyte bikes, not have to disclose their financials to the courts and still have money in their pockets
So from reading that it looks to me as though the rouge tweet was an attempt to fool Haas into removing RE branding from the car believing they've just been terminated, then as a consequence of removing branding RE would then sue Haas for breach of contract and walk away with money to pay off Whyte bikes, not have to disclose their financials to the courts and still have money in their pockets
Doink said:
https://beyondtheflag.com/2019/07/14/formula-1-ric...
So from reading that it looks to me as though the rouge tweet was an attempt to fool Haas into removing RE branding from the car believing they've just been terminated, then as a consequence of removing branding RE would then sue Haas for breach of contract and walk away with money to pay off Whyte bikes, not have to disclose their financials to the courts and still have money in their pockets
That sounds like creative journalism to me, contracts have termination clauses and a Tweet the day before the cars run would never have resulted in HAAS removing all the RE branding to be caught in breach.So from reading that it looks to me as though the rouge tweet was an attempt to fool Haas into removing RE branding from the car believing they've just been terminated, then as a consequence of removing branding RE would then sue Haas for breach of contract and walk away with money to pay off Whyte bikes, not have to disclose their financials to the courts and still have money in their pockets
They even race as Rich Energy Haas F1 Team and they could not change the name without FIA and the other teams approving it, that sort of thing does not happen overnight.
However we are all talking about RE and good or bad this saga is getting them a lot of time in the press.
pozi said:
However we are all talking about RE and good or bad this saga is getting them a lot of time in the press.
Is it though? Other than F1 type press and on here I have seen and heard very little about RE.The whole debacle is a PR shambles. In fact to quote Malcolm Tucker, Storey is an omnishambles.
pozi said:
However we are all talking about RE and good or bad this saga is getting them a lot of time in the press.
If they had a product on the shelves of Britain's supermarkets yes, the free media coverage would be been very useful. But it's for all the wrong reasons and they have no product on shelves and anyone googling them to find out will just find more of the same negative press.It wouldn’t surprise me if storey thought that he could sue HAAS for breach after “sacking them” because he clearly doesn’t think rationally.
I don’t buy the “all publicity is good” either. Rich energy was set up (well in theory) as a premium aspirational brand. To get that they sponsored a F1 team and I would expect lots of attempts at celeb endorsement.
However, celebs don’t want to be associated with dirt as they have to carefully manage their own brand. Just ask Philip Green.
This is only going to end one way.
I don’t buy the “all publicity is good” either. Rich energy was set up (well in theory) as a premium aspirational brand. To get that they sponsored a F1 team and I would expect lots of attempts at celeb endorsement.
However, celebs don’t want to be associated with dirt as they have to carefully manage their own brand. Just ask Philip Green.
This is only going to end one way.
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